War Voices

Tony Curtis

War and its effects have been an enduring subject throughout the twenty-five year writing career of Tony Curtis. The resulting poetry might have been bleak but for the sensitivity with which Curtis handles the theme,...

Welsh Airs

R.S. Thomas

Welsh Airs could be called R.S. Thomas’s book of nationalist poems. It brings together twenty-four poems from volumes long out of print such as Poetry for Supper, The Bread of Truth and Not That He...

The Welsh Book of the Dead

Douglas Houston

A wry, singular wit, an astringent honesty, and a virtuoso use of traditional forms characterise Douglas Houston’s new book. At its (broken) heart is the not-uncommon crisis of the break-up of a marriage. Houston spins...

Welsh Retrospective

Dannie Abse

Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain’s most popular poets. Dannie Abse’s Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings. Wales and Cardiff, in particular,…

Welsh Verse

Tony Conran

New edition. The tradition of Welsh poetry stretches back to the sixth century, making it among the oldest living literatures in Europe. In Welsh Verse Tony Conran translates a selection of work from fourteen centuries…

Wild Blue

Frances Williams

The poems in Wild Blue are the product of a restless and inventive intelligence. Capable of ruminating with grace and flair on such diverse personalities as Isaac Newton and Elvis Presley, Williams moves confidently between…

The Witch Bag

Sarah Corbett

"Poetry as white-knuckle ride" is how Poetry Wales described Sarah Corbett’s debut, The Red Wardrobe. Her eagerly-awaited second collection, The Witch Bag, is as powerful as its predecessor, and is sure to cement Corbett’s reputation...

Wowsers

Paul Groves

In Paul Groves’s fourth book, which consolidates his reputation as one of the most able and consistent poets of his generation, we encounter such unlikely stablemates as Rudolf Hess, Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas, and Otto...

The Zoo Father

Pascale Petit

Shortlisted for the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter’s fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of...